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Tuesday, 26 August 2014

Dark Eldar Reinforcements

Surprisingly a friend of mine has decided to get rid of his old dark
eldar force in order to make some room for different models (probably imperial
guard and his million fliers) and just gave me his models. Knowing I have an
old 3rd edition dark eldar force he knew I would happily accept as
his models are all old school as well. So I thought I would show off the state
of my dark eldar force as it is right now.

My force is not painted consistently, and it not really painted at all
with many of the models not even having been primed yet. Not that’s not going
to change any time soon. I personally have only bought a few of the models,
maybe 2 ravagers, 20 warriors 5 wyches and an Archon. The rest of my force has
been bought or gifted from my friends who have started dark eldar, not enjoyed
the experience or just wanted to get rid of them for one reason or another. Either
way it has left we with a rather large dark eldar force.

A jewel of the bits I have been given is the forgeworld dark eldar
flier which isn’t from jsut reading its rules doesn’t seem too good, but it
fits into the aesthetic of my force perfectly. I defiantly want to try this guy
out soon, just to see what it can actually do.

Having such a large force makes me want to try out rather different
lists, such as a 30 incubi list which probably wouldn’t do very well, but it
could be fun. Other things like a 6 ravager army list could be fun, focusing
mainly on vehicles and very little infantry (gotta love double CAD). I also
want to do some more common themes such as a wych cult or more generally a
close combat force designed to just focus on the assault phase.

After getting all of my stuff out I was inspired to make a few army
lists to mess about with, so It would be cool to see what you guys think of
them.

Dark Eldar Wych Cult

Succubus – 75 (warlord)

Venom blade, haywire grenades

Heamonculus – 55

Venom blade

Heamonculus – 55

Venom blade

Heamonculus – 55

Venom blade

8 Blood brides – 145

Siren, venom blade, 1x razor flail, haywire grenades

Raider – 60

Dark lance

9 Wyches – 123

Haywire grenades, hekatrix, venom blade

Raider – 60

Dark lance

9 Wyches – 123

Haywire grenades, hekatrix, venom blade

Raider – 60

Disintegrator cannon

9 Wyches – 123

Haywire grenades, hekatrix, venom blade

Raider – 60

Disintegrator cannon

5 wyches – 60

Haywire grenades

Venom – 65

2x splinter cannon

10 Reaver jetbikes – 257

Arena champion, venom blade, 3x heat lance

3 Beastmasters – 132

8 khymera

Total: 1498

This force is mainly wyches but I have added in 3 haemonculi as it
allows for the larger wych units to start with feel no pain which will
ultimately help them survive the rounds of combat I want them to reach, as well
as helping (a tiny bit) if their ride gets shot down early. The force is light
on ranged anti-tank but I have a large number of haywire grenades which should
help strip vehicles of hull points if they make combat.

This is not competitive, and against a flier heavy army I would be in
deep trouble, but it could be a really fun list to play.

Assault force

Going down a different assault force rout which doesn’t feature wyches
as heavily wwe have the following:

Archon – 95 (warlord)

Shadow field, venom blade, combat drugs

Haemonculus – 55

Venom blade

Haemonculus – 55

Venom blade

Haemonculus – 55

Venom blade

10 Wracks – 100

Raider – 70

Torment grenade launcher, grisly trophies

9 wyches – 108

Haywire grenades

Raider – 70

Torment grenade launcher, grisly trophies

9 Wyches – 108

Haywire grenades

Raider – 70

Torment grenade launcher, grisly trophies

8 Incubi – 176

Raider – 70

Torment grenade launcher, grisly trophies

9 Reaver jetbikes – 234

3x heat lances

Talos Pain engines – 110

Chain flails

Talos Pain engines – 110

Chain flails

Total: 1500

This list has different assault units which will help against
different types of units. Having the Incubi help take out 2+ save units and the
wracks can hopefully kill a monstrous creature or two. While they are slower
than the rest of the force the two pain engines might divert some fire power
allowing the other units to live longer, or if they get ignored, hit hard later
on.

Again not very competitive but could be worth a laugh.

Combined Arms

This is probably where dark eldar will do better in a competitive environment.
They have a lot of fire power as well as combat ability so it could work out
well.

The Baron – 105 (warlord)

10 Warriors – 100

Splinter cannon

Raider – 60

Dark lance

10 Warriors – 100

Splinter cannon

Raider – 60

Dark lance

5 Warriors – 60

Blaster

Venom – 65

2x splinter cannon

5 Warriors – 60

Blaster

Venom – 65

2x splinter cannon

5 incubi – 110

Venom – 65

2x splinter cannon

3 Beast Masters – 156

5 khymera, 4 razorwing flocks

6 Reaver jetbikes – 156

2x heat lances

Ravager – 105

3x dark lance

Ravager – 105

3x dark lance

Ravager – 105

3x disintegrator cannon

Total: 1497

It’s an old combo but still a good one, by adding the Baron to the
unit of beast maters you get a nice hard hitting unit which is very fast.
Adding in the ravagers for fire support, the reavers and incubi to help out in
combat it should able to hold its own.

I know adding the blaster to the unit of 5 warriors isn’t a great idea
but its back up anti-tank if things go wrong.

I would do 1 shooting only list for completeness but I really don’t want
to, as that's what I have my Eldar for. So which list do you guys think will do
best?

1 comment:

I think the last list the best, however I would drop the incubi and add in some of the elements you had in the previous lists, eg. a large wrack unit in a raider, and haywire wyches (either on raider or venom).

I also think the beastmasters need a few more krymera to be effective. I used to use a 5/6 split of krymera to razorwings, but have had much more performance out of them since I changed to 10/4 (more bodies and only 30 pts more expensive), and would be tempted to go 15/2. There is so much str6+ in the meta now that the flocks just get instant killed if there isn't enough krymera. It shouldn't be too hard to pick up some of the old warp beasts off ebay to match your army.

Rathstar

PS. As the rules for the raven stink so bad, how about using it as a ravenwing jetfighter in casual games ?